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ASTRO-1 telescopes

auteur: NASA/Novapix

référence: e-sou18-00001

Image Size 300 DPI: 17 * 25 cm

ASTRO-1 telescopes are documented in the payload bay of the space shuttle Columbia, and backdropped against the cloud-covered surface of the Earth. In the center of the frame are three ultraviolet telescopes mounted and precisely coaligned on a common structure, called the cruciform, that is attached to the instrument pointing system. December 1990.

Keywords for this photo:

1990 - ARTIFICIAL SATELLITE - ASTRO-1 - ASTRONOMICAL SATELLITE - ASTRONOMY - COLUMBIA - EARTH - EARTH FROM SPACE - LIMB - SPACE - SPACE SHUTTLE - STS-35 - TELESCOPE - ULTRAVIOLET - ULTRAVIOLET IMAGING TELESCOPE - UV - X - X-RAY -